The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-02-10
"TRUTHFUL JAMES,"


role of 'Truthful james, and the
Globe is his nozzle for throwing the
truth around in Il free and '"disregard-
less' manner. The last issue of his
nozzle says:
The Globe has received letter from
Auditor Mills which the ADVANCE,
with it's boasted motto Of free speech
and and free press,' defined to pub
tish.
The letter having been kept at the
ADVANCE office until it b-came too
hate to get it in this issue of the Globe.
it is necessarily omitted this week.
We will do the Globe the justice to
say that we believe Mills has deceived
his own Nozzle. Two meaner false
hoods (mean enough to be downright,
deliberate lies) never appeared in
Worthington paper. Tie facts are:
Mills came t. us Tuesday in the mid.
die Of the afternoon with column
communication. We were at the job
press busy, with three more men busy
setting type. Mills asked us to look
over it and see if we could publish it.
We told him we could not stop then
but would look it over in the evening
and let him know. lie intimated that
he wanted to know 1T once. He ex-
p-cted us to stop work, look it over.
accept it, pay Il man silver dollar out
of our own pocket to set it up. do the
work on the last day before going to
press, when we lay all our own long ar
ticles aside, and all to give hearing
to the man who is doing his level best
to injure us in business, in politics aid
in private life.
We read the article in the evening
and the next morning. the first thing,
before going to our own office, we saw
Mills going to his office and hurried
over. We told him to cut it down,
leave out the unnecessary compliments
to his own Nozzle, leave out the para.
graph telling US what the consequences
would be if We didn't do so and so.
and cut down, if possible, his long de-
scription of those "boOks." We told
him it was Wednesday, when we were
always pressed with locals. ads, etc.,
but get it back by ten O'Clock and we
would publish it.
Instead of doing this he went to the
Globe and told the above lies.
The fact is he published it for the
purpose of i,,jurimg the west end. If
this item We're the only one it would
not be worth noticing. bnt A. p. has
been 1T this continually for years. He
never loses Il chance to strike at Ad-
rian and the west end as hard as he
can.-Adrian Guardian.
This is in reference to our state ment
that times were hard aid collections
were being forced in the west eEd.
Uaislett has been publishing this lie
continually for months. lie never
loses i chance tn strike at the east end
and t." lie at the ADVANCE. When we
prais- the west end, when we admit
th,t Adrian is doing 4 good business,
when we speak we'll of any citizen of
the west end, Haslett comes back on
US with the above stereotyprd lie about
abusing the west -nd. When we hon
est'y and faithfully support west end
men for office. rs we did last fall. and
always before. uaisl-tt comes at us
with the lie that we are fighting the
west end.
When We publish the fact that tie
ives, end is Il fertile region, that Grand
Prairie is til" bAuntr township "f the
county. as W. always have done, Hais-
, lett comes back with his patent lie
that we are lighting the wtst end.
When we admit that Adrian is a
brisk, booming little town. AS we do
now and always have done. the Guar.
dian cries ''there! there! abusing the
west end againr'
The Guardian thinks this is the way
to get the county seat and to take onl
subscribers from US in the west end.
But we suppose Worthington and
east end men and fair-minded men ir
the west end. have now got their eyes
open to the schemes of the Adrian rine
and to the utterly false, unfair ani
dishonOrab!e methods of the Guar
dian.